Printing press



May L 1923..

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Application filed September 26, 1921. Serialilo. 503,317.

To all 107mm t may concern? e Be it known that I, HARRY B. MoBnn, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Eat.

`liouis, Missouri, have invented a new and` ri useful Improvement in Vllrintingf Presses, of

which the following' is a specification.

My invention relates to the printing art and has for its object to produce a simple, efficient, durable and practically inexpensive l device for receiving' an article which is to re ceive an impression and force a frame, carry-` ing a makeup, against it.

My invention consists of certain details lof construction hereinafter set forth, `pointed y out in `my claim and illustrated `in the acicompanyinp` drawings, in which Figure l shows a perspective view of my device, a por-- tion of the same hemp,` broken away 5` 21nd,.

Figure ll shows a `detail view, in section,

of a portion of my device, talrenon the line 2`-2, in Figure l. y y Referring to the accompanying drawings the reference numerals 10and 11 are used `to indicate a pair of vertical standards, hollowediin their central parts to receive the `vertically mounted, screw-threaded shafts i 12 and 13, respectively. These shafts are "journaled in hearings in their `respective o standardsfand at the lower end of each is a heveled gear wheellLl. `These standards are, obviously,` joined. together, and extending `between the two 1s` a shaft 15, mounted for rotationin its hearings in each of the standarde, said" shaft being,l provided with pinions 5 1G, toengagre each of the beveled gear wheels l 1.4i-, and said shaft also projecting' heyoiui one of the standards and having; a handu wheel 17 secured to its end. i.

A second shaft 1S is moi'lnted Vhetweee the screw-threaded shafts 1Q and 13, hy means of screw-threaded hearings 19 and 20, supporting the shaft 18, being` threaded on to the shafts 12 and 13. fll'he vconstruction is such `that the shafts 12 and 13 rotate, when actuated,`within thesaid hearing` thus causing;

the shaft 18 to move upwardly" or downwardly. On the shaft 18 is make-up frame 21, designed to receive and f retain the type to form `the impression to be o received by the hook, or other article. Eze tending between the standards 1() and 11, and

`The `article to receive the a depending` descri hed.

lbelow the make-up frame, isa bed plate 22,

which. may he likened to a platen of a printing-press, roept that the function of the hed plate 221s simply to receive the article to be printed and is not designed to function in the additional ways necessary for a platen.

The operation of my device is as follows: impression is placed upon the bed plate 22 `and the opera tor then rotates the handwheel 17, thus rotating the shaft 15, carrying` the pinions 1 6, which are in mesh `with the heveled gear wheels; 111. This simultaneously rotates the screw-threadedshaftsll and 13, thus cans inn' theshaft 18 carrying` the malte-u p frame to be lowered or raised. The operator lowers the sliaft`18,"forcinn themalze-up frame 21,

containing` the inalre-up which has heen inked bythe operator, against the article to receive the impression,`

is variouslrinds of articles are designed `tohe placed in my` device .for the receiving of the printing", .it is obvious that there must he more or less flexibility in the functioningr "i i parts. This flexibility l have provided. for

the control of applied pressure has been demonstrated to satisfactorily meet this condition. The operator can apply suchpressure asmay he needed to force the article heing printed to a proper parallel plane with the type-hearinga frame.

` Having thus described my invention, what l claim and desire to secure hy Letters .llatn `ent of the United States, is:

iu a printing press` a pair of r'foinpaiiion standards spaced apart and a hed plate se` cured to and extending beyond same; asorew threaded sha'it vertically mounted for rotation in each oi: said standards means to ro-` `tate the said shafts simultaneously; a carryingshaft for a make-up framemounted he- 'ill tween said Ascrew"tlneaded shafts in such` manner as to he carried upwardlyor downwardly of the rotation `of the said shafts; a make-up frame dependinp,l from the last mentioned shaft, substantially as shown and HARRYB MCBEE Witnesses:

S. C. Lariano, ZELL Ron. 

